Roberta Cooper Ramo, Christine Durham and Brandon Garrett | February 11, 2019 | Sentencing
The death penalty in the United States, both new convictions and executions, has declined through recent decades. In this episode of Reasonably Speaking, we explore the history of the death penalty and the various factors that are contributing to this decline. Death...
Brandon Garrett | January 4, 2019 | Sentencing
Recent Slate article by Brandon L. Garrett discusses the implementation of The First Step Act, the federal prison reform bill recently signed into law by President Donald Trump. The statute embraced two main types of interventions designed to reduce federal reliance...
Brandon Garrett | July 30, 2018 | Sentencing
One of the most remarkable stories in criminal law is the recent rise of corporate prosecutions across the world. In the past, even in countries that permitted corporations to be prosecuted for crimes, such prosecutions were not a common practice and any fines were...
Brandon Garrett, John Monahan and Anne Metz | July 17, 2018 | Sentencing
AbstractThe assessment of an offender’s risk of recidivism is emerging as a key consideration in sentencing policy in many American jurisdictions. However, little information is available on how actual sentencing judges view this development. This study surveys the...
Brandon Garrett | June 13, 2018 | Children and the Law
A recent USA Today Op-ed piece addresses the topic of juvenile interrogation tactics. The Netflix documentary Making a Murderer shocked audiences and started an important conversation about involuntary confession and the use of juvenile interrogation topics. “Brendan...
